On Day 2, the cardinals will begin their day with a mass in the Pauline Chapel and then retreat to the Sistine Chapel for ...

Black smoke bellowed from the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday night, meaning the cardinals did not select a new pope. More voting ...

Latest news and live updates as the election process for the next pope continues. The cardinals met for their first conclave ...

The cardinals can vote twice Thursday morning and twice in the afternoon. If no one collects a two-thirds majority, the ...

Cardinals are meeting in a secret, sacred conclave for a second day as they seek a new pontiff to follow Pope Francis.

The Catholic Church's cardinal electors entered the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican to choose a successor to Pope Francis, as ...

Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become ...

Catholic cardinals from around the world gathered in the Vatican on Wednesday for the start of the conclave, the ...

Here's how the conclave creates black and white smoke and why the Catholic Church began using them to signal whether a new ...

The papal conclave, the secretive election process to elect the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church, commences on ...